Wednesday, March 03, 2004
BBC NEWS | Technology | Row over how to junk spam
Well, they say that great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ. I join Microsoft, Yahoo and others then, but I'm not sure what as. This mimics parts of my just-being-formulated spam system, though mine extended checking the source of messages with automated public-key encryption, and I was considering hitting not the spammers but the people who use their services: a large denial of service attack on the very website that asked you to visit it is surely only doing what they asked - but doing it so well it becomes useless. Take away the commercial advantages of spamming, and it will become obselete too.....
Well, they say that great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ. I join Microsoft, Yahoo and others then, but I'm not sure what as. This mimics parts of my just-being-formulated spam system, though mine extended checking the source of messages with automated public-key encryption, and I was considering hitting not the spammers but the people who use their services: a large denial of service attack on the very website that asked you to visit it is surely only doing what they asked - but doing it so well it becomes useless. Take away the commercial advantages of spamming, and it will become obselete too.....
(c) 2003-2005 Russell Beale
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